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by prvc 6y ago
For those complaining about their misuse of "1984", it's merely a mockery of Apple's previous misuse of it (an effective one, too!). "1984" is a satire of Bolshevism and the Stalin regime, but became of a victi
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by prvc 6y ago
Professional pundits 'offering' old observations, watered down to the point of near-meaninglessness, as their own original ideas, are part of the problem: prvc
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by prvc 6y ago
Yes, one of the few current film critics who bring occasional originality and insight to their writings. Film reviews seem to be almost universally idiotic and insipid (also ideological, although Brody is not excepted from partaking in this
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by prvc 6y ago
>why don't we assume it does? Then the knowledge and awareness might spread a little bit more If the assumption is incorrect, then it would be misinformation that we would be spreading.
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by prvc 6y ago
>Still Recently acquired, however.
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by prvc 6y ago
As a young man, he went to France with his mother. The trip did not turn out well, as he was met with a very cold reception there, also his mother died. He did not return. He also got on rather well with and even once gave an impertinent ki
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by prvc 6y ago
From that article: >When GPT-3 speaks, it is only us speaking, a refracted parsing of the likeliest semantic paths trodden by human expression. Which is only true in a very general, oblique sense; and one which applies equally well to hu
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by prvc 6y ago
I read the whole article expecting something programming-related to come (it didn't).
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by prvc 6y ago
Looked at a haphazardly chosen sample of his work, spurred on by the above comment, but none came close to even Larson's worst, in my opinion.
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by prvc 6y ago
Larson credits Kliban among others as early influences in this interview https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/arts/far-side-gary-larson...
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by prvc 6y ago
The New Yorker's convention regarding the use of the diaeresis is the Charles II of Spain of editorial guidelines.
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Anthony Tommasini: To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions(nytimes.com)
2 points by prvc 6y ago|2 comments
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by prvc 6y ago
Shocking that they don't take even basic precautions like image hashing to cut down on this.
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by prvc 6y ago
Does anyone have a detailed description of the scent of ambergris?
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by prvc 6y ago
If true, the relative proportion of such videos would only decrease as new users join. If your goal is to suppress such videos, then turning prospective users away would be counterproductive.
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by prvc 6y ago
Compared to secular best practices, here we're working with different logic and different epistemology, among other things. A religious worldview not just about agreeing to this or that proposition.
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by prvc 6y ago
Yes, there is one, it's called AVC.
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by prvc 6y ago
>So I don't appreciate new codecs coming out and obsoleting my hardware You could say something similar about any other technological advance.
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by prvc 6y ago
8 MiB Shrek is kind of an AV1 meme at this point.
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by prvc 6y ago
It is mildly amusing that the very simple vector art "VVC" logo on their webpage is displayed by sending the viewer a 711 KB .jpg file.
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by prvc 6y ago
So they themselves claim. Will wait for empirical tests with available codecs to really evaluate this. Also note that for a given bitstream specification, there will be "room to grow" for encoder implementations (AV1 is designed t
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by prvc 6y ago
A bit of a self-important way to start what appears to be a blog, imho.
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by prvc 6y ago
To be fair, one does get a flavor of Tramiel's character in On the Edge, despite the elision of this incident. I am always bemused when I come across some sentimental "tribute" to him somewhere on the internet, produced by so
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by prvc 6y ago
Guinness style (and other types of) facts can be unimportant, hence the term "trivia", but they need not be, that's all I'm saying. Similarly, the disputation of these facts can be pedantic quibbling or interesting and i
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by prvc 6y ago
This is an effective time-saving device for an individual, certainly, but taking this strategy to an extreme leads one to hedge your statements away into nothingness. Some questions are worth discussing (what the first x is may or may not b
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by prvc 6y ago
That would defeat the purpose of being minimalist, don't you think?
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by prvc 6y ago
One suggestion would be to implement a mode similar to Finale's "speedy entry", which allows for more efficient entry of notes, dynamics, articulations, ornaments, etc. without moving between modes and pallets, correcting and
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by prvc 6y ago
Is there any conceivable good reason for the NYT to publish the name in an article on the claimed topic, despite the author's wishes to the contrary? Can't think of any, unless the reporter was also misrepresenting the subject of
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by prvc 6y ago
Are there typically lingering physiological effects on the brain after taking LSD? Would this counteract those, or merely the psychological aspects?
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by prvc 6y ago
Want to add that they really need to revamp their note entry process, which is very unpleasant and inefficient, and necessarily involves a lot of backtracking and redundancy. I hope this is included in the next version.

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